Episode 2 in our series with Reading for Pleasure 🧶 on overcoming barriers to reading for pleasure is out! It focuses on creating a culture which helps children to feel more confident in sharing their thoughts and choices around reading.

Watch here: bit.ly/44my92F

Win a Poetry By Heart competition box with everything schools need to run the poetry speaking competition! Enter by 30 April 2024 - find out more: bit.ly/3x1GJYd

We’ll be picking up our books for #ReadingHour (7-8pm) to celebrate World Book Night UK. It’s an hour to take a break, focus on yourself and escape into a book, magazine, comic book, or anything else! Will you join us?
bit.ly/3w8T0dh The Reading Agency

Really productive roundtable this morning to explore the coherent early years offer in libraries, with the stellar company of ASCEL, World Book Day UK 📚, BookTrust, The Reading Agency, National Literacy Trust, Arts Council England. Watch this space as we generated great momentum for shared work!

1 in 3 people don’t regularly read for pleasure. We want to change this by encouraging everyone to read a book today to celebrate @worldbooknight from The Reading Agency. What are you reading today? Find inspiration from this year's booklist: worldbooknight.org/books #WorldBookNight

To celebrate #WorldBookNight tomorrow, The Reading Agency is inviting you to join the #RoadtoReading and pledge to read for 30 minutes every week for 10 weeks. Make a change in your life and sign up today! worldbooknight.org

Final chance to take part📢

If you coordinate World Book Day in your school or early years setting, tell us about your experiences in our short surveys:

Early years settings: bit.ly/43zc0Oi
Primary: bit.ly/49aGZS3
Secondary: bit.ly/3TCmrMD

Final chance to take part in our survey 📢

If you work for a public library, we'd love to hear about your experiences and how you brought World Book Day to life in your library and community.

Take part in our short survey: bit.ly/43wiUUp

New competitions alert! Don’t miss out on the chance to win these brilliant prizes… 📚
Enter now on our website - worldbookday.com/competitions/

Booksellers! Final chance to take part in our survey 📢

We'd love to hear about your experiences of World Book Day. Take part in our short survey: bit.ly/49dXi0C

We're proud sponsor World Book Day UK 📚 for 27 years. Our sponsorship helps the charity encourage more children, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, to have a life-long habit of reading for pleasure and the improved life chances this brings them.

#CharityTuesday

In partnership with World Book Day UK 📚, we have created a series of four webinars - each explores a different barrier to #RfP and considers some solutions 💙 Watch Episode One now, or catch up with the introductory video on our YouTube channel ✨📚
👉 youtube.com/watch?v=qAiWzU…

Did you hear that? We have fantastic FREE audiobooks to listen to on our World of Stories hub! worldbookday.com/world-of-stori…

Thanks to the brilliant publishers we work with and Yoto, our 2024 official audio partner, for providing these audiobooks.

We'd like to say a BIG thank you to everyone who supported and fundraised for World Book Day this year! 🤩
If you haven't paid in your funds yet, you can easily donate by scanning the QR code. Find other ways to donate here: worldbookday.com/fundraising/

How can we overcome barriers to reading for pleasure in schools?
Inspired by our research with Beano Brain, our new webinar series with Reading for Pleasure 🧶 talks to practitioners about their experiences and give some brilliant tips to use in your setting -
worldbookday.com/about-us/our-a…

Welcome to our Share a Story Corner, where you can snuggle up, get comfy and enjoy video stories of familiar favourites with your little ones: worldbookday.com/share-a-story-…

It's #QuickReads publication day!

We’re thrilled to feature the new Quick Reads as the World Book Night booklist. They’re a valuable tool for boosting reading skills, and they're now available to buy or borrow from your local library 📖

Find out more 👉rebrand.ly/quick-reads-20…

Catch up with our digital events from World Book Day 2024 with recordings on our website and YouTube Channel - from CPD for teachers to the BBC Live Lesson!
➡️ worldbookday.com/events/
➡️ youtube.com/@WorldBookDayUK

Our Design a National Book Token competition for #WorldBookDay has now closed. 🚨

Thank you to everyone who submitted an entry! Our judging panel will meet and the six winners will be contacted soon. 👀

Remember to enter by 7 April! National Book Tokens' competition encourages children of all ages to share their love of books by designing their own gift cards. Winners and their schools will bag National Book Tokens and a bookshop visit to choose books: worldbookday.com/competition/de…